The need for parenting support of parents and other caretakers of children in the age of 3 months to 4 years were examined.

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primary caretakers were interviewed in Well Baby Clinics on the island of Curaçao. The caretakers were asked about (the burden
of) their questions, worries or problems, their needs for support and their unfulfilled needs for support. They were also
inquired about their sources of support, the number of risk factors and the degree of parenting stress. The study showed that
almost all caretakers had questions concerning raising children, especially pertaining to difficult behaviour of the child,
during the past twelve months. One third of these questions comprised an actual burden. Family functioning was the largest
domain of need for support. Housing, social network, behaviour and parenting problems followed in that order. This need of
support was unfulfilled in half of the cases. Especially caretakers in impoverished neighbourhoods had a highly unfulfilled
need for support. Caretakers do not only want support from their social network but also from the professional network. Especially
the Well Baby Clinic and the general practitioner are important sources of support. Furthermore it was found that the unfulfilled
needs for support and the total amount of burdened questions both had strong relations with the amount of experienced stress
and with the number of risk factors.

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